Not true. The USCF Forum is not a public forum. Access to the forum is
limited. One must apply. It is not easy to find the place and get in
here and members are few.

Known Troublemakers like Phil Innes, Rob Mitchell, Bill Brock, Larry
Parr and a host of others are not allowed access to the Forum. Even
Susan Polgar is not allowed to come there, not because she was kicked
out or excluded, but because she excluded herself. She is not even
allowed to browse this forum, although I am sure she would immediately
be reinstated if she applied.

It is up to Beatriz Marinello to decide to whom and how she wants to
disclose information about her medical condition. Beatriz chose to
post it there but not anyplace else.

Beatriz is a very private person. For example, she has never revealed
her residence address. For her mailing address, she uses a PO Box in
Crossville Tennessee. Even I do not know where she lives although I
know that she lives somewhere in New York City. I know of nobody who
knows her actual address.

The decision by Beatriz to reveal this information about her medical
condition was probably motivated by the fact that she is a member of
the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation and USCF
members have some right to know about the health status of the members
of the board. I am sure that Beatriz does not want the entire world to
know about her medical condition.

There is a larger issue concerning the fact that Susan Polgar
routinely re-posts large numbers of postings on the USCF Forum to her
own blog. She even re-posts much of what I write here to her own blog.
I have no objection but I am sure that others do.

For example, today, Susan has reposted to her blog a long posting by
Mike Aigner on the USCF Forum. Many readers will believe and indeed I
for a second believed that Mike Aigner had decided to post to her
blog. By doing this, Susan leads readers to conclude that Mike Aigner
and others who are shown on her blog actually support Susan Polgar for
election. I have no idea whether Mike actually supports her or not. I
do know that in the past she put postings by Hal Bogner on her blog
and when Bogner demanded that Susan remove them, she started attacking
Bogner.

Sam Sloan